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A POTTED HISTORY
Name: Anthony (Tony) Volante
Age: 76
Location: Newton Abbot, South Devon.
First camera owned:
On Joining the RAF at 17½ years old I bought a Kodak Box Brownie 620 and used black & white film.
Posted to Cyprus I swopped the Brownie for a Franka Solida 6x6 folding bellows job. We started a photographic club and I learned how to develop and print my own films. Still using B&W.
On leaving the RAF I worked for a fashion agency just off Regent Street in London, working in their darkroom. I bought myself a Yashica 44 TLR, using 127 film in 4x4 format. Still mostly B&W.
Since then I have never been without a camera of some sort, ranging from a 16mm Minolta sub-miniature camera to a 6x9 plate camera. There were many types of 35mm camera ranging from a Zenith-E up to (my last 35mm) a Canon EOS 650 with which I specialised in natural history photography and was awarded an LRPS by the Royal Photographic Society. I only used Kodachrome 64 colour slide film in those days.
I built myself a darkroom, but only for B&W. I also enjoyed landscape photography and for this I used a Mamiya C330 6x6 TLR and a Zenith 80 6x6 SLR.
I then moved on to Digital cameras, starting with a Ricoh RDC-300Z (one of the first digital cameras), through to a Nikon D80 with a Nikkor 35/70+Macro f3.3. Nikkor 70/300 f1.4 and a Sigma 400mm f5.6.
I also own a JVC GR-DA20EK digital video camera for some interesting wildlife video shots. Check out the Wildlife Video page.
I also have a Bushnell Trail camera which produces quite good still photos at 5mp, and 'not-so-good' video. Check out the Trail Camera page.
I use my digital camera in conjunction with a GPS Data Recorder which enables me to record the track of where I've been with the camera and place that track on Google Earth together with all the photos I took on each trip as the GPS can write the date, time, and grid reference of each photo was taken into each photo file. Yes, I'm a gadget anorak!!
Tony
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